Geoff Thrower said:You might get the motto right for a start.De mieux en mieux par tout"Better to better everywhere", not "................for all"

And that's from 50 years ago (1958-1963)

John said:Thanks Geoff.You know, I think you are right, but all the shields, logos, Pastonians etc I saw said 'pour tout' and only the School song said partout. So I changed it, changed it back, and in the end went for what was visible today (pour tout). But its definitely 'everywhere'.So where/when did the bastardisation occur?

Geoff Thrower said:When indeed sir, not on my watch :)IIRC the motto was in old French, heraldic or Norman, so not exactly as per modern French. I suspect a certain M. Shuffrey explained it once.I don't think I have any written momentos of that time to look it up

Geoff Thrower said:Blowing up the badge on the header shows "pour" so perhaps I'd better pay me tenner and shut up about it :)

Peter Stibbons said:Geoff,

Nice to hear from you. My recollection - and we will have been in the same lesson - is that GOS said that the motto didn't actually make sense in French. Maybe that wasa specific reference to the partout. The school song was written about 1907 - the full version (seven verses, I think) is in the 'Old Boys' documents trunk at the College. The irony is that the middle name of the man who worte it was 'Napoloen'.